Corrupted rise from their ashes with the first 12" of the Hollow trilogy that will be concluded later. This time, the band chooses to explore further the dark ambient territory of Llenandose De Gusanos, that is playable both on 33 and 45 rpm. The former setting exhibits the droney side of things, with a seething sense of dread, while the latter instigates from the thick molasses of sound bursts of glorious noise, until they're suppressed again by the ominous hum.

Ideal Recordings provides us a huge public service by reissuing Riot, one of the very first examples of pure Noise assault. After his self-imposed exile on Japan back in 1984, John Duncan envisioned this record as an unbearable piece of music, a deliberate attack on the listener, but despite his effort to make something that ugly, Riot ironically became a key ingredient in the evolution of Japanoise as we know it. Behind the wall of static and shortwave randomness, you can trace a rich tapestry of metallic textures and a keen sense of physicality. The Black Sabbath sample is just a bonus.

After a couple of tape releases on Obsessive Fundamental Realism and Hiisi Productions, this anonymous Finnish project makes its official debut on Freak Animal. Grease District has everything you need from your harsh noise, be it the crunchy low end, the balls out attack or the angular turns. The few industrial touches are more than welcome, like the tight last track with its rhythmical hammering in front of the brutal soundstage and the lost-in-somewhere vocal snippets. More like this please.

I expected way more from this collaboration, but that doesn't mean that The Weight Of History is bad in any way. It's just too safe for its own good. Still, an Εno/Shields 12" is better that no Eno/Shields 12", so here it is.

Cruise (Force The Truth)

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